Our History

About Our Founder

Nurses for Newborns was founded by Sharon Rohrbach, RN, and Robin Kinney in the early 1990’s. Sharon was a nurse in a St. Louis, Missouri critical care nursery. She was frequently called to the hospital’s emergency department to address life-threatening illness in the infants who had just been discharged a few days earlier. Her vision was to start an organization of registered nurses that would make home visits to provide medical assessment of the infants and education for parents. It was Robin’s vision to help people who are living in poverty that served as the catalyst for the creation of this agency. We have stayed true to that mission, nearly 100,000 families later. But here is what happened next:

1991 Nurses for Newborns is incorporated and within a year becomes a registered non-profit in Missouri

1993 NFN invests in technology to demonstrate positive change and allow for reach into both rural and urban communities